Psalms 88:6

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

In Context

5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Psalms 69:15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

Psalms 130:1A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!

Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Lamentations 3:55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →

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